The Odisha cricket team (known as Orissa until 2011) is a domestic

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team based in the

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Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

. It is in the elite group of the Ranji Trophy. Its main home ground is Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. Home matches are also played at DRIEMS Ground in Cuttack, East Coast Railway Stadium in Bhubaneswar,

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, KIIT Cricket Stadium in Bhubaneswar and other grounds. The team's recent best performance in the Ranji Trophy came in the 2016–17 season and 2019-20 season, when they advanced to the quarter-final stage. They lost there to the eventual champions

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respectively.Under the captaincy of Govinda Poddar

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and Subhranshu Senapati 2019-20. The Odisha cricket team is selected by the

Odisha Cricket Association Odisha Cricket Association (abbreviated OCA) is the governing body of the Cricket activities in the Odisha state of India and the Odisha cricket team. It was formed in the year of 1961 and its headquarters is in Cuttack Barabati Stadium Complex. ...

(OCA). The OCA organises the

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every year to promote cricket and search for local talent throughout the state.

History

Odisha first competed at first-class level in the 1949–50 Ranji Trophy, when they lost to

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by 356 runs. Their first victory came in 1952–53, when they defeated

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by an innings. They played only against other East Zone teams (Bihar, Assam and

) until 1983–84, when they progressed to the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals for the first time. At the completion of the 2017–18 season, Odisha had played 296 Ranji Trophy matches. They had won 64, lost 106 and drawn 126.

Past and present players

Players from Odisha who have played International Cricket, along with year of debut: *

Debashish Mohanty Debasish (or Debasis) Sarbeswar Mohanty (born 20 July 1976) is a former Indian cricketer who played in two Test matches and 45 One Day Internationals between 1997 and 2001. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler who coupled pace to his natural ...

(1997) *

Sanjay Raul Sanjay Raul (born 6 October 1976) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. Sanjay Raul is a strokeful middle order batsman who started his international debut as part of India 'A' tour of Pakistan ...

(1998) * Shiv Sunder Das (2000) *

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(2014) (Played International Cricket for

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) Prominent players at the domestic level: *

Rashmi Parida Rashmi Ranjan Parida (born 7 July 1977) is an Indian cricketer, who plays for Vidarbha in Indian Domestic Cricket.He has played for Odisha, Rajasthan and Assam. He is primarily a right-handed batsman. He made his debut for Odisha in 1994 and pla ...

* Pravanjan Mullick * Ranjib Biswal *

Basant Mohanty Basant Mohanty (born 4 July 1984) is an Indian cricketer who plays as a medium-pace bowler for Odisha in domestic cricket. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and has represented East Zone in Duleep TrophyIndia. He was in the winning team West ...

* Biplab Samantray * Govinda Poddar * Natraj Behera

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in ''bold''. ''Updated as on 27 December 2022''

Coaches

Coaches in Odisha cricket team are listed below: *

* Shiv Sunder Das *

* Ranjib Biswal * Sanjay Kumar Satapathy * Subit Biswal * Michael Bevan * Balvinder Sandhu * Sourajit Mohapatra * Abakash Khatua *

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Records

''For more details on this topic, see List of Odisha first-class cricket records, List of Odisha List A cricket records, List of Odisha Twenty20 cricket records.''

References

External links

Cricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions
Indian first-class cricket teams Cricket in Odisha 1930 establishments in India Cricket clubs established in 1930 {{India-cricket-team-stub